{"id":494,"date":"2025-10-02T03:47:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/lapavitsas-costas\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:47:20","slug":"lapavitsas-costas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/lapavitsas-costas\/","title":{"rendered":"Lapavitsas Costas"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCostas Lapavitsas<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<div class=\"addthis\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Lapavitsas Costas\">\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/staff\/staff31299.php\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Costas Lapavitsas<\/b><\/a> is Professor in Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London and specialised in the theory of banking and finance. Costas Lapavitsas is member of Research on Money and Finance, a network of political economists that have a track record in researching money and finance. It aims to generate analytical work on the development of the monetary and the financial system in recent years. A further aim is to produce synthetic work on the transformation of the capitalist economy, the rise of financialisation and the resulting intensification of crises.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n<div class=\"overlay\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/blogs\/redeveloping-finance\/financialisation-embroils-developing-countries\/28260-3-eng-gb\/financialisation-embroils-developing-countries_column.jpg\" alt=\"Financialisation embroils developing countries\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">Financialisation embroils developing countries<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/lapavitsas-costas\/\">Costas Lapavitsas<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t21 December 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tThe crisis of 2007-2009 arose after the burst of an enormous bubble in real estate in the USA and the UK. But the underlying trends that led to it are characteristic of financialisation in developed countries. 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